{"id":38377,"date":"2013-08-19T08:35:27","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T12:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=38377"},"modified":"2013-08-19T08:35:27","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T12:35:27","slug":"road-worker-charged-under-wrong-statute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/08\/road-worker-charged-under-wrong-statute","title":{"rendered":"Road Worker Charged Under Wrong Statute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-38382\" title=\"thomas-rogby\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/thomas-rogby.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/thomas-rogby.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/thomas-rogby-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Prosecutors admitted that Thomas Rigby, the man accused of causing more than $1.2 million in damage to the Airport Gateway, was charged and convicted under the wrong section of the Penal Code.<\/p>\n<p>Rigby, 53, was denied bail in the public\u2019s interest when he was arraigned before Magistrate Derence Rolle-Davis on July 19.<\/p>\n<p>The road worker admitted the charge on August 8, saying that he dug up 1.7 miles of the highway because he was upset that his bosses did not pay him.<\/p>\n<p>Rolle-Davis forwarded the case to the Supreme Court for sentencing because he thought Rigby deserved a penalty that exceeded his sentencing power of five years.<\/p>\n<p>Before the sentencing hearing proceeded before Senior Justice Jon Isaacs, prosecutor Anthony Delaney said that Rigby should have been charged under section 338 of the Penal Code, which calls for a maximum penalty of two years.<\/p>\n<p>Section 328 of the Penal Code, under which Rigby was erroneously charged, calls for a maximum penalty of 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>Delaney asked the court to correct the mistake by amending the charge before he proceeded to sentencing. Rigby, who did not have a lawyer, did not oppose the amendment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The disgruntled road worker accused of causing over $1.2 million in damage to the Airport Gateway, was charged and convicted under the wrong section of the Penal Code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[31,119],"class_list":["post-38377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-crime","tag-roads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}